The Syndicate

at the same time though, i like burglaries because they only take a couple of hours to run all the way through. i can mess around and focus on enjoying myself in them. 12 hour cycles would feel too much like a proper game to allow me that luxury.

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2018 10:49 pm Can we just make either burglaries, or another game mode, that are 24 hour full cycles instead? Run them on Greenwich Mean time. Literally have day from like 5.30am to 5.30pm.

i hesitate with the idea 12 hour phases just because the different time zones can screw with ones ability to participate depending on their timezone. It might be worth a test to see if it's at least feasible though, I've never seen one in action.

There's no good time for me given that my timezone is almost opposite to the majority of players. I'm more than happy to get up early or stay up late to play every now and again.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2018 9:19 pm We could run a poll in order to find out what time people prefer to play it overall.

I was going to add one to this thread, but I couldn't figure out how to create one.

I'm sure a lot of us have noticed how difficult it seems to be to fill up a burglary in recent games. They're a really fun game mode and it's surprising that we often can't get the numbers to host these games which only last a couple of hours, despite the number of active players on the site and in the discord chat. It goes without saying that it's not anybody's fault, but I'm still curious about why this is.

The timing is probably the most important factor, because people on this site have families, jobs and other obligations. And then there are the individual time zone preferences. Most games tend to be planned in the early to mid afternoon EST in my experience, and it's often a guessing game as to whether even the players who signed up will be able to play. Sometimes hosts themselves are challenged by circumstances in finding time to run their games. But I'm sure there are underlying reasons why we can't seem to get these games to run.

So my question is: What can we do to make burglaries more enticing? Do we need to rethink when we run these games? Change the pacing? Something else?